Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
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Presents
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Saturday, September 18, 2021, 4pm
The virtual concerts in the Live from Columbia series are filmed live and premiered throughout the 2021-22 season at millertheatre.com/live-from-columbia. On-demand streaming will be available immediately after.
This fall, as campus life and society relaunch, art plays a leading role. Livestreamed from the Miller stage, Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra perform an exciting program.
In 2019, Columbia University launched the Year of Water, an interdisciplinary investigation of water in all of its social, political, cultural, economic, and environmental complexities. As part of the initiative, the School of the Arts commissioned the composer, musician, and seven-time Grammy Award-winner Arturo O’Farrill to write a new work. Mundoagua receives its long-awaited world premiere, paired with another work by O’Farrill, Gulab Jamón, both performed by the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, “one of the best jazz orchestras in existence” (The New Yorker).
Filmed from the Miller Theatre stage
Co-presented with Columbia University School of the Arts
Plus: A Special Lecture by Arturo O’Farrill: Transposing Genres — Fluidity in the Arts
Tuesday, September 14, 7:30pm
Learn more and register for the Livestream
Repertoire
- Carla Bley Blue Palestine (2021)
- Arturo O’Farrill Mundoagua (2020), world premiere, commissioned by Columbia University School of the Arts in honor of Columbia’s Year of Water
- O’Farrill Gulab Jamón (2019), originally commissioned by The Greene Space through the auspices of the J L Greene Foundation
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Photo by Laura Mariet